The secret of their success? Guns, Germs and Steel. Ever since, people of European origin have dominated the globe, with the same combination of military power, lethal microbes and advanced technology ...
On November 15th 1532, 168 Spanish conquistadors arrive in the holy city of Cajamarca, at the heart of the Inca Empire, in Peru. They are exhausted, outnumbered and terrified – ahead of them are ...
Jared Diamond was a biologist studying birds in New Guinea in 1972 when a local politician asked him a simple question: Why does the white man have so many possessions while New Guineans have so few?
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